FEMALE PROTAGONIST IN VOICES IN THE CITY

ABSTRACT

Voices in the city of Anita Desai, is a novel which discusses the idea of freedom in life. The idea of freedom in life is initiative in the subjective novel, voices in the city of Anita Desai which eventually emerges as the recurrent theme. The novel in stream of consciousness technique delineates the struggle of the people with brutal forces. The novel in discussion also focus on human relationship and their freedom of life in its real but inner perspective. The people, character, in the novel seem to be products of the social ethos which get subjective. The movements and patterns both physical as well as mental get self-analytical but introspective. Therefore, the character’s individual quest for a personal meaning in life or can be called freedom in life, is the recurrent theme of the novel in discussion Voices in the city which happens to be unavoidable interest of the novelist, Anita Desai. The investigation, ’how the protagonists in the novel of discussion try to make their lives significant with the conflicts.’ The paper researches the struggling for freedom in life in the novel, Voices in the City.

The research paper focus on the theme of the picture of lower-class society in Anita Desai’s Voices in the City. Anita Desai is one of the leading Indian women novelist writing in English most of the theme found in her novels are the problems of alienation, immigration, marital disharmony and so on. In the voices in the city Anita Desai portrays how people, especially poor, are forced to loss their moral values because of money which is indispensible to lead the life. Thus the society makes a lot of sudden change. A comprehensible and new vision of life has been presented in the novel where new visualization of Indian life has emerged as an idea in this novel, Voices in the City. These voices are the different visions of life which have been put into due attention. The research has been aimed at presenting the delicacies as well as the obvious feeling towards life and their experiences in individual way which obviously achieves a harmonious effect in the novel, Voices in the City written by Anita Desai. It presents a “powerful articulation”.

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